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Emil and the Detectives (1935 film)

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Directed by
  
Milton Rosmer

Music by
  
Allan Gray

Initial release
  
5 February 1935

Music director
  
Allan Gray

7.1/10
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Produced by
  
Richard Wainwright

Edited by
  
Cyril Heck

Director
  
Milton Rosmer

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Starring
  
John Williams George Hayes Mary Glynne

Production company
  
Richard Wainwright Productions

Cast
  
Mary Glynne, George Hayes, John Williams

Written by
  
Erich Kästner, Frank Launder, Billy Wilder

Cinematography
  
George Stretton, Mutz Greenbaum

Similar
  
The Challenge, Animals United, The Guv'nor, Balaclava, The Great Barrier

Emil and the Detectives is a 1935 British family adventure film directed by Milton Rosmer and starring John Williams, George Hayes and Mary Glynne. It is a remake of the 1931 German film Emil and the Detectives with the main setting moved from Berlin to London. Otherwise it follows the original very closely, recreating many of the same camera shots. It was made at Shepperton Studios.

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Synopsis

While on a train from his home in the countryside to stay with his grandmother in London, a boy named Emil suspects that he has been robbed of his money by a suspicious-looking man in the same carriage wearing a bowler hat. In London, with the help of a gang of street children, he pursues the suspect until he is eventually able to recover the money.

Cast

  • John Williams as Emil Blake
  • George Hayes as The Man In The Bowler Hat - Sam Pinker
  • Mary Glynne as Mrs. Blake
  • Clare Greet as Grandma
  • George Merritt as PC
  • Marion Foster as Polly
  • Donald Pittman as Gussy
  • Robert Rietti as Professor
  • John Singer as Tuesday
  • Derek Blomfield as Jerry
  • Norman Atkyns as Man
  • Ricky Hyland as The Flying Stag
  • References

    Emil and the Detectives (1935 film) Wikipedia